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The huge, saberlike teeth of this searching for other fish to eat. Juvenile
ORDER BERYCIFORMES ORDER BERYCIFORMES
deep-water predator are designed common fangtooths look very
Common Fangtooth to grab and hold onto other fish that different from the adults and were Orange Roughy
may be as big as it is. The teeth are no classified as a separate species until
Anoplogaster cornuta good for cutting or chewing and so 1955. They are light gray in color and Hoplostethus atlanticus
LENGTH the common fangtooth swallows its have long spines on the head. They LENGTH 20–30 in
6–7 in (15–18 cm) prey whole, rather like a snake does. live in water as shallow as 160 ft (50–75 cm)
WEIGHT Adults are uniformly black or dark (50 m) and feed mainly on crustaceans. WEIGHT Up to 15 lb (7 kg)
Not recorded brown in color and can live as deep as Adult females shed their eggs DEPTH 3,000–6,000 ft
DEPTH 1,600–16,000 ft 16,000 ft (5,000 m), but they are most directly into the sea, where they (900–1,800 m)
(500–5,000 m) common between 1,600 and 6,500 ft develop into planktonic larvae. The
DISTRIBUTION Deep waters in temperate and (500 and 2,000 m). They hunt juveniles take on the adult shape when DISTRIBUTION North and south Atlantic, Indian
tropical waters worldwide by themselves or in small shoals, they are about 3 in (8 cm) long. Ocean, southwestern and eastern Pacific

This is one of the longest-lived fish
species, with individuals having been
recorded to reach at least 149 years
old. It is a bright, brick-red color, but
appears black in the dark waters in
which it lives and this helps to hide
it from predators.
This deep-bodied, spiny fish that
lives in deep water over rough ground
and has a relatively limited home
range. Deepsea fisheries now target this
fish, and because it grows slowly and
reproduces late, it cannot sustain heavy
fishing. The Australian government
listed it as threatened in 2006.
soft
rays

ORDER ZEIFORMES
John Dory
Zeus faber
LENGTH Up to 3 ft (90 cm)
WEIGHT Up to 18 lb
(8 kg)
DEPTH 15–1,300 ft
(5–400 m)

DISTRIBUTION Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black
Sea, Indian Ocean, western and southwestern Pacific.
The John Dory has one of the most
distinctive appearances of all fish, with
a rounded but very thin body, a heavy
mouth, and tall fins. It is an expert
hunter, stealthily approaching its prey
head-on. In this attitude, its thin body
is almost invisible and it can approach
other fish closely. When it comes
within striking range, it shoots out its
protrusible jaws and engulfs its victim.

spiny
soft first
second dorsal
dorsal fin
fin

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